The vegetation of old-fields in Transkei

South African Journal of Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 414-420

  Smits, N A C ^a,b   Bredenkamp, G J ^a   Mucina, L ^a   Granger, J E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abandoned land; Associations; Ordination; Plant communities; Succession syntaxa

Indexed keywords

OLD FIELD; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION;

EASTERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSKEI;

EID: 0033379442     PISSN: 02546299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0254-6299(15)31032-2     Document Type: Article

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